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Friday, July 16, 2010

The Death of the Middle Class Proletariat

a (slightly) oldie but a goodie...

Elizabeth Warren gets a lot less coverage in the Conspirosphere than Catherine Austin Fitts but I think she does a pretty good job of documenting the death of the American and, by extension, the British, middle class

Because her presentation is based on US demographics it does include elements, such as health insurance, that aren't directly relevant to the UK but the core of her analysis is sound and relevant to people on the other side of The Pond

Another weakness in Warren's presentation is the lack of any analysis of the reasons why the changes she's identified have come to pass. She does an excellent job of demonstrating the size of the hole a typical double-income family finds itself in in 2005, compared to a single income family in 1970, but she doesn't even start to explain where that hole comes from (edit: she does a slightly better job here)

You could, of course, simply shrug your shoulders and say 'shit just happens' but then you probably wouldn't be reading this blog...

edit: of course, as a commentator pointed out underneath one of my posts a little while back, James Goldsmith nailed this subject years ago...

Goldsmith was a peculiar chap. The analysis he presents in this video is perceptive and essentially anti-elitist. Yet, this same man was a robber baron who looked more like a Bond villain (complete with a Bond villain's multi-zillion dollar tropical fortress lair) than anyone else alive and whose family has bumped uglies with the Rothschilds and who are now leading players in the ongoing eugenic global eco-scam

I'm fucked if I know what he was playing at

He doesn't seem to be taking the piss in that video-

edit#2:

and, on the subject of the Fucked Middle Class Consumer, this warms up nicely towards the end...

"I asked what intelligence was obtained. The reply was that the information related to the size and shape of the relevant Iraqi division in our area of operations. I recall replying that this information had very little relevance as that Iraqi division had surrendered a few days beforehand"

Looks like I need to wade through evidence from the inquiries (Baha Mousa; Al Sweady and the pending one).

I asked about JFIT 'cos they were using illegal interrogation techniques, the Colonel's evidence being an example of such.

Depending upon when JFIT was set up could give evidence of pre-planning of GW2. As in, why do you need to set up JFIT if there isn't going to be a war and why do you have to set it up in such a way that they could be trained in a manner that would ensure that they are ignorant of the law. (Allegations from Phil Shiner of PIL).

As for the Baha Mousa and other inquiries, I wonder if this could lead to the dissolution of the Queen's Lancashire regiment?

The establsihment response would be that outfits like JFIT were establsihed as the result of experiences in Afghanstan, or the Balkans, or even the kind of feasibility studies the military are engaged in all the time

What I personally find more disturbing is the question what's the point of outfits like this?

As evidence by the colonel's testimony the fact that these professional torturers reported directly to London meant that they didn't have a fucking idea of the local military situation. So, what were they torturing people for?

I can't escape the feeling that in this case, as in others, the brutality and the brutalisation was almost an end in itself

Can't help thinking that Goldsmith was borrowing from the RFK back catalogue a little...

"We will find neither national purpose nor personal satisfaction in a mere continuation of economic progress, in an endless amassing of worldly goods. We cannot measure national spirit by the Dow Jones Average, nor national achievement by the Gross National Product. For the Gross National Product includes air pollution, and ambulances to clear our highways from carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and jails for the people who break them. The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. It grows with the production of napalm and missles and nuclear warheads.... It includes... the broadcasting of television programs which glorify violence to sell goods to our children. "And if the Gross National Product includes all this, there is much that it does not comprehend. It does not allow for the health of our families, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play. It is indifferent to the decency of our factories and the safety of our streets alike. It does not include the beauty of our poetry, or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials... the Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile..."

for the life of me I can't understand why anyone would've wanted him shot in the face

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